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'Worth going to Vegas for alone' ... Bette Midler I'm a sucker for Vegas. In six visits to this parched, neon-lit Nevada desert town in the last seven years, I've never dropped a quarter in a single slot machine or sat down at a roulette table. But as someone who loves show business and the business of shows, there's nowhere quite like it in the known universe. The entire place is theatre – a living playground of sensational excess and 24-hour pleasures, both corporeal and mental, and that's before you even get to the line-up of 70-plus shows that are playing here at any one time. And though you may not find Pinter or Hare on the Vegas strip, most other forms of theatrical spectacle are here, from an inevitable clutch of Broadway and West End shows (from Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys to The Phantom of the Opera, the latter... [read full story]
